Posted 2 April 2013
Leading UK magazine, The Economist, previoisly a supporter of the hypothesis of "man-made global warming", seems to have had a change of heart with this recent article: "...some scientists are arguing that man-made climate change is not quite so bad a threat as it appeared t...
Posted 3 April 2013
Viscount Christopher Monckton, who has just begun a speaking tour of New Zealand, has responded to an article in the on-line edition of the New Zealand Herad, attacking his qualifications and motives: Read article here.
Lord Monckton comments: "I have attached som...
Posted 30 March 2013 *
"Just one day after the IPCC Chairman claimed that global warming had stopped happening 17 years ago, the Australian Climate Commission rushed out a press statement, 'The Earth Continues to Warm.' Clearly, there is a lack of consensus here. Are these diametrically oppo...
Posted 29 March 2013
:When we are talking about science, we are not talking about what John Tyndall found in a test tube, but predicting what happens to temperatures in response to small changes in the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere. The science is inherently weak because it is not capable...
Posted 27 March 2013
"The planet is no longer warming. The brief warming episode of the late 20th century completed its course in the mid 1990s, and is now extinct. **These are now uncontroversial statements. They are based on hard data which has been available for many years on the websites of...
Posted 27 March 2013
IPCC expert reviewer Dr Vincent Gray, of Wellington, NZ, has revised his original paper of the greenhouse effect. "The origins of the 'Greenhouse Effect' which were reviewed in 'The Greenhouse and its Effects'1 . have been further reassessed. The idea of the climate resembli...
Posted 22 March 2013
Posted 18 March 2013
NZ Climate Science Coalition member Joe Fone, of Christchurch has written a book, which has been reviewed by John Shade, who welcomes it among others, concluding: "they all share their particular insights and shock at discovering how few clothes are to be found on the emper...
Posted 15 March 2013
The end of this wek (March 15) marks the cut-off for scientific papers if they are to be cited in the Working Group I contribution to the forthcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, due in 2014. Unless the papers are published or accepted for publication the report cannot refer...
Posted 16 March 2013
Larry Bell writes in Forbes magazine: "No, it wasn’t a conspiracy plotted by Big Oil or Republican operatives using mercenary hackers after all. And unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by “Climategate”, I’m r...
Posted 16 March 2013
A new report written by Dr David Whitehouse and published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation concludes that there has been no statistically significant increase in annual global temperatures since 1997. After reviewing the scientific literature the reports concl...
Posted 15 February 2013
Matt and Janet Thomson,were beef feedlot farmers who were run off their property at Narrogin, WA, by environmental and state government bullying. They both have agricultural degrees, and brought their children and capital to Australia in order to develop a state of the art...
Posted 15 February 2013
Climate change sceptic Steve McIntyre is a withdrawn and quietly spoken individual who doesn’t go out of his way to offend people. But when the Canadian mathematician and former mining company executive clinically debunked a landmark UN report on global warming known as th...
Posted 11 February 2013
A newly released study from the Research Council of Norway has climate change alarmists abuzz. One of the things the alarmists have been pushing for is to halt warming at a 2°C increase at any cost (and they mean that literally). In the Norwegian study, much to the alarmis...
Posted 8 February 2013
The trouble with facts on global warming...
Posted 5 February 2013
The Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC)has announced that the North Atlantic Ocean has entered a period of decades-long decline in temperatures which will accelerate the rapidly advancing new cold climate era. North Atlantic temperatures are most often tied to the...
Posted 5 February 2013
"Two ways to encourage unity on the climate change issue would be to insist that forecasts be provided for all costs and benefits, and that all forecasting procedures abide by scientific principles. If validated principles are not included in the current forecasts, they sho...
Posted 3 February 2013
Noted UK scientisty and author Dr Matt Ridley lists10 questions in answer to: " What it would take to persuade me that current climate policy makes sense?" He has written about climate change and energy policy for more than 25 years and has come to the conclusion that curre...
Posted 2 February 2013
The renewed focus on “dangerous manmade global climate change” is now increasingly combined with the equally broad and malleable concept of “sustainable development” – to justify all manner of government, activist, UN and agenda 21 interference with and control of the decis...
Posted 31 January 2013
n his inaugural address last week, President Obama demonstrated that he is putting people at risk with misguided climate and energy policies. If there really were an increased threat from “raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms,” as the president indi...